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Re:UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea... by xorcist on Saturday December 30, 2023 @11:19AM (#38816378)
Norway has a lot of hydro, but AFAIK no pumped hydro. I don't know why that is? It sounds like a reasonable idea, to even out the European prices. Perhaps it is not as easy as an armchair consultant would believe? Sweden seems to be in a similar situation.
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Re:UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea... by Reason077 on Saturday December 30, 2023 @06:51PM (#38820448)
Norway does have a modest amount of pumped hydro: about 1.2 GW.

But inter-connectors are a great alternative to pumped hydro. When the UK and Denmark have an excess of wind energy, it can be sent to Norway. Norway can then conserve water in their storage lakes, and sell it back to the UK and Denmark on days when they need it.

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